Models with rumpled, rolled up hair, luminous skin, and golden-bronze eyes gave off an almost heavenly aura backstage at Donna Karan. "The makeup inspiration was a 1930s influence with a modern twist, and a sepia photograph, which we gave a digitalized spin," explained makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury. To give the skin a "wet" look, she brushed on liquid foundation and played up the cheekbones by patting on a cream-colored highlighter in the shape of a "C" around the eyes. Tilbury mixed bronze and gold cream shadows together, and worked them into the creases of the eyes, topping the eyelids with loose gold powder. After, she glazed the lids with an eye gloss "for a plastic look." She worked a chocolate brown mascara just into the roots of the lashes (she didn't pull through to the tips)—just to make the eyes appear a little more open. And the brows and lips were simple: "I brushed a little foundation through the brows and over the lips to mute them," Tilbury said.

Hairstylist Eugene Souleiman described his soft creation as "slightly masculine meets a romantic, raw kind of hairdo." After dousing the models' dry hair with Wella Professional High Hair Ocean Spritz to "dry the hair up," he created a deep, low side part. "This look is all about enhancing imperfections; it should look like you've been out in the elements," he explained. Souleiman loosely pulled the hair back and fastened it into a low ponytail, then rolled the ends of the tail up, securing it into an updo with pins. "When the models put on their clothes, they'll mess the hair up and give it even more texture," Souleiman said. "The clothes in the collection are crumpled, so we wanted the hair to mimic that."

Even the models' nails had a soft sheen: They were coated with a metallic silver Deborah Lippmann nail polish called Believe (a color the celeb manicurist developed with Cher).